April 3, 1918, Moscow

In urgent order outside any priority

Krasnoyarsk Soviet of Deputies, Ekaterinburg Soviet of Deputies

What further confirmation do you need? Dozens of times you have been told that the Estonian barons must be returned to their homeland in accelerated order. Carry out this order of the Party's Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars, or state directly that you do not wish to carry it out. We will then know that you are taking upon yourselves responsibility for the calamities arising from your refusal to obey, and we will draw the appropriate conclusions.

Lenin. Stalin

*The documents were written by I. V. Stalin (received from the Central State Archive of the October Revolution, f. 130, op. 12, d. 54).*